The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested 32-year-old Jessie Eugene Morris and 25-year-old Amber Leard-Morris of Fort Walton Beach May 9 after deputies responded to a complaint of a man beating a dog with a piece of lumber and then holding it down by its neck with the lumber against its throat.
Members of the Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) received an update on the future Pensacola Bay ferry service at their April 9 meeting in Milton. Dan Brown, Gulf Islands National Seashore (GINS) park superintendent, said the ferry service is projected to being in March 2017.
Florida Forest Service (FFS) crews responded to seven separate wildfires in north Santa Rosa County, totaling more than 180 acres Wednesday, May7. According to FFS, one structure was threatened by crews were able to use tractors to create a line between the fire and the home. The Bagdad Volunteer Fire Department and Avalon Fire Rescue were also dispatched in support of the forest service.
A five-person crew flew a newly-painted E-2C Hawkeye May 9 from Norfolk, Va., to NAS Pensacola. It was the plane’s final flight and shortly after it landed it was presented to the National Naval Aviation Museum. The Hawkeye was the only Navy Fleet aircraft not on display at the museum.
Cmdr. Robert G. Sinram relieved Cmdr. Matthew J. Bowen of duty as Commanding Officer of Helicopter Training Squadron EIGHT (HT-8) during a Change-of-Command ceremony May 9 at NAS Whiting Field.
All of the standing water the area has experienced due to widespread flooding has Santa Rosa County officials preparing for an influx of swarms of mosquitoes.
